Friday, June 26, 2009

Reed's Direct

On our rest day in Yosemite Valley Mark and I relived a climb we had
done over 30 years ago. The route follows the absolutely perfect hand
and fist crack (the white streak visible in the photograph). At 5.10a
we were both feeling like studs, until we looked down and saw Kauk and
Bacher soloing the thing. We chatted for awhile and then they
proceeded to downclimb the route solo ... It put things in perspective for us. (Click on this photograph to enlarge the image of this classic rock climb.)